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Do people think the reddit scraping bots are useful? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by _jonatan_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like it just creates a potemkin village where we have communities filled with content that nobody interacts with or cares about.

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[–] badgerson@feddit.dk 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as long as the amount of scraping is very limited, e.g. copying the top 3 posts of a subreddit daily, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal 🤔

[–] voidf1sh@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I could arguably see sharing a few choice posts each day, but it seems like it's always posts that have no votes or comments or interactions